"A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."

"It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates."

"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti."

"Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now."

"Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication."

"I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device"

"I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?"

"You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon."

"The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man."

"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

"I don't remember any blue poodles."

"Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor."

"At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher."

"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."

"There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass."

"A dehoy who was terribly hobble, Cast only stones that were cobble And bats that were ding, From a shot that was sling, But never hit inks that were bobble."

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why"

"Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view."

"To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature."

"It’s forty kilometers through hell, sir,” said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. “After all,” he said softly, “what isn’t?"

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

"There was an old coddle so molly, He talked in a glot that was poly, His gaws were so gew That his laps became dew, And he ate only pops that were lolly."

"Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog."

"Books can be burned,” croaked Black. “They have a way of rising from the ashes,” said Andreus."

"Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope."

"The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman."

If I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?